Icones, id est, Verae imagines virorvm doctrina simvl et pietate illvstrivm, qvorvm praecipuè ministerio partim bonarum literarum studia sunt restituta, partim vera religio in variis orbis christiani regionibus, nostra patrúmque memoria fuit instaurata: additis eorundem vitae & operae descriptionibus, quibus adiectae sunt nonnullae picturae quas emblemata vocant

by: Bèze, Théodore de, 1519-1605

Publication date: 1580

Topics: Reformation, Reformation, Religious biography, Emblems

Publisher: Genevae, apvd I. Laonivm

Collection: getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Sloan Foundation

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Latin

Jean de Laon's allegorical device on t.p. On t.p. verso is woodcut port. of James VI of Scotland, to whom the work is dedicated. The ports. appear in the oval openings of decorative surrounds. Some of the openings are empty, the subject's name in letterpress being substituted for the missing port. The 44 emblems appear in rectangular decorative surrounds, one to a page, followed by explanatory Latin couplets (2K3v-2Q1r). Headpieces, decorated initials

Signatures: * 2Q

Errata, 2Q3v

Includes index

Binding: later vellum, tooled in gilt with double fillets along margins of boards. Remains of label on spine. Now in clamshell box covered in purple cloth; title, author and imprint in gilt on red spine label

Centered on front pastedown is bookplate of John Trotter Brockett. At lower left-hand corner of front pastedown is booksellers' label of W. & G. Foyle, London. At foot of front free endpaper recto is bookplate of Thos. Wilkinson, Scots House; it has been pasted over the bookplate of T.M. Panton. On 3rd front free endpaper recto is inscription with signature of M. Tydeman. At foot of t.p. is signature: ?Noel Baudouyn